Definitions for pastime

pastime pas·time

Spelling: [pas-tahym, pahs-]
IPA: /ˈpæsˌtaɪm, ˈpɑs-/

Pastime is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 308 anagrams from letters in pastime (aeimpst).

Definitions for pastime

noun

  1. something that serves to make time pass agreeably; a pleasant means of amusement, recreation, or sport:

Origin of pastime

1480-90; earlier pas(s)e tyme, translation of Middle French passe-temps

Examples for pastime

They were trailing a hot scent, a pastime as well as a work that was their life.

Cooking up scientific explanations of the plagues has been a pastime for years.

And if horse racing endures and survives, it will be the result of an overdue focus on the august animal that defines the pastime.

Let it be a hobby, a pastime, a social thing—like it used to be, like it always was.

The one is a pastime; the other”––he paused and caught his breath––“a passion!

As a pastime, bow hunting has a more refined history than other modes of recreational animal killing.

The wooing on Shakespeare's side was nothing but pastime, though it led to marriage.

Mr. Dowling should have found other forms of exercise and pastime.

Discussion was, indeed, a pastime in which the major never indulged.

People like to brag about their connections in D.C. It's a pastime for some.

Word Value for pastime
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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